PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 18, Number 28 (July 7, 2024) PEN Website: https://planetarynews.org Editor: Mark V. Sykes Co-Editors: Matthew R Perry, Alex Morgan Email: pen_editor@psi.edu Twitter: @pen2tweets o-------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS---------------------------o 1. Second Diversity and Inclusion Survey for Astrobiology 2. 2024 DPS Travel Grant Application Form is Open 3. [NASA] Office of STEM Engagement TEAM II Data Call for Reviewers 4. [NASA] PDS: Aperiodic Data Releases in 2024.06 5. [NASA] PDS: Odyssey Data Release 88 6. AGU Session B111: Trailblazing the Intramolecular Isotopic Frontier with Ultrahigh Resolution Fourier-Transform Mass Spectrometry (FT-MS) 7. AGU Session P008: Dynamic Exospheres of Terrestrial Bodies Through the Solar System 8. AGU Session P019: Machine Learning and Data Science Methods in Planetary Science 9. AGU Session P023: Oscillations in Internal Fluid Layers of Planets, Moons, and Stars 10. AGU Session P031: Radar Investigations of Planetary Surfaces and Subsurfaces 11. AGU Session P033: SSSBs - Sample Returns, JWST, Ground-Based Astronomy, and More 12. AGU Session P041: Understanding Ocean Worlds in the Era of the Europa Clipper and JUICE Missions 13. Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month 14. [NASA] ROSES-24 Amendment 25: C.27 Lucy in the L4 Trojans Participating Scientist Program 15. Professor and Associate Professor Position at the Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University, Japan 16. Ice Giant Systems Seminar Series: July 9, Dr. Matija Cuk (SETI Institute) 17. Planetary Meeting Calendar Additions 18. Planetary Science Journal - New Papers o---------------------------------------------------------------------o 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 SECOND DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SURVEY FOR ASTROBIOLOGY Dr. Arsev Umur Aydinoglu (Middle East Technical University) is conducting a second survey to assess how diversity and inclusion may have changed in the field of Astrobiology, since the first survey was conducted in 2022. Those findings were presented at AbSciCon 2024 (307-05, Diversity and Inclusion in Astrobiology: Results from a Survey), and are available at: https://tinyurl.com/e7exv36a Please find the follow-up survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/astrobiology2024 2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 2024 DPS TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATION FORM IS OPEN The DPS Travel Grant application form is open to support participation in the 2024 DPS or National Society of Black Physicists annual meetings via the Hartmann and the URM Travel grants. The Hartmann Student Travel Grant supports student presentations at the annual DPS meeting. Postdoctoral scholars may also be eligible, but students are prioritized. The Underrepresented Minority (URM) Communities in Planetary Science Travel Grant supports attendance by student and professional folks that are members of Black/African American, Indigenous, and/or Latinx communities to support in-person or virtual attendance at the annual DPS or NSBP meeting. Apply here to both/either program: https://dps.aas.org/news/dps-travel-grants-application/ The deadline is July 21. Community donations are critical for the health of these awards. Donations to the URM travel grant through the end of October will be matched by a DPS community member, up to $4k. Instructions to donate are linked at: https://dps.aas.org/news/dps-travel-grants-application/ 3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3 [NASA] OFFICE OF STEM ENGAGEMENT TEAM II DATA CALL FOR REVIEWERS The FY 2024 TEAM II peer review will take place in the fall and winter of 2024. The review will be held in stages - an online and panel review. Reviewers will be needed for both phases; the online reviews will be held over 3 weeks where reviewers complete individual assessments of their assigned proposals. Online reviewers will receive approximately $40 per proposal review received with an expected average read of 8 proposals; and will in no cases receive more than a total of $360 regardless of total number of proposals reviewed. The virtual panel review will be held over 3 days in early December where panel reviewers will meet together to review, discuss, and finalize their assessments. Panel reviewers will receive $250 per day and panel chairs will receive $350 per day. If you are interested in participating in the FY 2024 TEAM II peer review process as an online reviewer and/or panelist, please complete the NASA OSTEM TEAM II Data Collection Form: https://forms.gle/UGMNEueqSf8D5aubA NASA online reviews requires you have an activated and updated NSPIRES account: https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/ [Edited for length] 4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4 [NASA] PDS: APERIODIC DATA RELEASES IN 2024.06 In June 2024, PDS ingested and made available the following data, none of which were regularly released with an ongoing mission: 2024.06.28 New Horizons Alice Reference Files Used in Calibrating Data 2024.06.28 New Horizons Alice KEM1 Encounter Calibrated Data 2024.06.28 New Horizons Alice KEM1 Encounter Raw Data 2024.06.28 New Horizons Documents for the Alice Instrument 2024.06.28 New Horizons Documents for the LORRI Instrument 2024.06.28 New Horizons Mission Documents v2.0 2024.06.28 New Horizons Documents for the SWAP Instrument 2024.06.28 New Horizons LORRI Reference Files Used in Calibrating Data 2024.06.28 New Horizons LORRI KEM1 Encounter Partially Processed Data 2024.06.28 New Horizons LORRI KEM1 Encounter Raw Data 2024.06.20 Lowell Observatory Near Earth Objects Survey (LONEOS) images 2024.06.20 New Horizons SWAP KEM2 Raw,Calibrated V1.0 2024.06.20 New Horizons SDC KEM2 Raw,Calibrated V1.0 2024.06.20 New Horizons PEPSSI KEM2 Raw,Calibrated V1.0 2024.06.20 New Horizons LORRI KEM2 Raw,Calibrated V1.0 2024.06.20 New Horizons LEISA KEM2 Raw,Calibrated V1.0 2024.06.14 Clementine Imaging 2024.06.06 Mars Express ASPERA-3 Moments DDR Ion Mass Analyzer EXT3 V1.0 2024.06.06 Mars Express ASPERA-3 Flux DDR Ion Mass Analyzer EXT3 V1.0 To access those data, go to: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20240630.shtml To access all data archived in PDS, go to: https://pds.nasa.gov 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5 [NASA] PDS: ODYSSEY DATA RELEASE 88 The NASA Planetary Data System announces Release 88 of data from the Mars Odyssey Orbiter. This release contains raw, calibrated, and derived data products nominally covering the time period October 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023, for the GRS/HEND/NS suite, and August 30, 2023, through November 29, 2023, for THEMIS. Since the previous Mars Odyssey release, two raw Radio Science data volumes have been released, with data covering the period January 1, 2024 to April 30, 2024. GRS/HEND/NS and Radio Science data are archived at the PDS Geosciences Node, THEMIS data at the THEMIS Data Node, and SPICE data at the PDS NAIF Node. The data may be accessed from: https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/odyssey/ A more dataset-oriented view is at: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-20240701.shtml To access the latest PDS Data Releases, please visit the following link: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/subscription-service/SS-Release.shtml All available PDS data may be found at: https://pds.nasa.gov/datasearch/data-search/ Odyssey releases occur every three months. The next release is scheduled for October 1, 2024. For further information, see the PDS Home Page: https://pds.nasa.gov/ 6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6 AGU SESSION B111: TRAILBLAZING THE INTRAMOLECULAR ISOTOPIC FRONTIER WITH ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION FOURIER-TRANSFORM MASS SPECTROSCOPY (FT-MS) Attention instrument builders, meteoriticists, cosmochemists, and astrobiologists! Our session is listed in Biogeosciences, and is cross-listed with Planetary Science and Astrobiology deliberately: We find ourselves at a nucleation point in the evolution of isotope ratio MS techniques. FT-MS instruments with resolutions up to and beyond 1 million and less-destructive ionization sources enable largely interference free, simultaneous, multi-element, multi-isotopic measurements of complex molecules. These performance characteristics are providing unprecedented access to new intramolecular isotopic information, including the distribution of rare isotopes within a population of molecules and/or the positions of those isotopes within a molecular structure. These isotopic signatures encode a wealth of information inaccessible to bulk or compound-specific isotopic analyses alone. The recent push to leverage FT-MS technologies to perform high precision, natural abundance isotopologue ratio measurements has advanced our understanding of isotopic signatures and distributions within molecular species, which has in turn yielded transformative results in the fields of organic geochemistry, cosmochemistry, and environmental geochemistry. We seek submissions utilizing FT-MS approaches in geo/environmental science, planetary science, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and beyond. Go to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/226005 Conveners: Issaku Kohl (University of Utah), Amy Hofmann (JPL/Caltech) 7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7 AGU SESSION P008: DYNAMIC EXOSPHERES OF TERRESTRIAL BODIES THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM The neutral exosphere is the only atmospheric layer ubiquitous in all terrestrial bodies. Their composition and energy partition can provide crucial insight into atmospheric photochemistry, atmospheric evolution timeline, and space weather effects through coupling with the solar wind and the local plasma environment. This session focuses on investigations of neutral exospheres of terrestrial bodies throughout the Solar System (e.g., Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Earth's moon, Jovian Moons, and Titan). It includes topics on physics- and data-based modeling of exospheres, remote sensing techniques that include space- and ground-based UV and visible light observations, inversion methods to retrieve density distributions, studies of the interaction of exospheres with local plasma populations (e.g., solar wind, ring current, plasmasphere, partial ionospheres), estimations of atmospheric escape rates with orbit position and solar activity, and presentations of current and upcoming missions focused on exospheric measurements. The submission deadline is July 31, 2024, at 11:59 PM EDT/03:59 AM +1 GMT. Go to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/224393 Student and early-career contributions are especially encouraged! Best wishes, Dolon Bhattacharyya, Edwin Mierkiewicz, Carl Schmidt, Gonzalo Cucho-Padin [Edited for length] 8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8 AGU SESSION P019: MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA SCIENCE METHODS IN PLANETARY SCIENCE Many facets of research in planetary science rely on analyzing large volumes of in-situ and spacecraft data. Traditionally, these data were collected and analyzed manually. In recent decades, developments in the field of machine learning (ML) have begun to gradually augment traditional techniques, answering the need for automatic methods that can rapidly and intelligently extract information from large datasets in a useful manner. This session will be dedicated to data driven research that leverages ML and data science to enhance our scientific understanding and return from planetary data and missions. Topics may encompass studies for existing and future planetary missions. Submissions are welcome for applications across science and engineering, including but not limited to: spacecraft operations and mission planning; surface, atmosphere, and space environment; object detection and classification; change detection; interpretable methods; and other studies that apply ML and data science methods to planetary science. Go to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/226555 Conveners: Abby Azari, Hannah Kerner, Megan Ansdell, Lior Rubanenko, Ramanakumar Sankar, Joey Pasterski 9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9 AGU SESSION P023: OSCILLATIONS IN INTERNAL FLUID LAYERS OF PLANETS, MOONS, AND STARS Please consider submitting an abstract to our session on waves in fluid layers of planets/stars/moons. Oscillations in internal fluid layers play an important role in the dynamics and evolution of planets, moons and stars. In these objects, the Coriolis force, curvature and buoyancy act to support inertial, Rossby and internal gravity waves. When a magnetic field is present, magnetic Alfven waves can also exist. In reality, all these types of motion combine to produce complex oscillations. This interdisciplinary session aims to bring together scientists from the Earth, Solar, and planetary communities to synergistically consolidate our collective knowledge of these phenomena. Please submit your abstracts here by July 31, 2024: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/223754 Conveners: Ankit Barik, Jeremy Rekier, Daphné Lemasquerier, Catherine Blume 10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 AGU SESSION P031: RADAR INVESTIGATIONS OF PLANETARY SURFACES AND SUBSURFACES We welcome and encourage you to submit abstracts to the AGU24 Fall Meeting Session: P031 - Radar Investigations of Planetary Surfaces and Subsurfaces: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/224674 Proposed and existing radar instruments are enabling an unprecedented range of radio geophysical observations of the surfaces and subsurfaces of Solar System bodies. This has spurred the development and application of new instrumentation, processing, modeling, analysis, and interpretation approaches to planetary radar science and engineering. We invite abstracts on any topic involving the use of radar data to understand planetary bodies. These may describe (but are not limited to) new results from existing radar observations, the development and application of new observation or data processing techniques, numerical modeling of existing or future observations, and/or the analysis of airborne or orbital radar data from terrestrial analog studies for Solar System observation. Please note that the abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 31 July 2024 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT. We look forward to receiving your abstracts and creating an engaging session for the community. Thank you, Sean Peters, Indujaa Ganesh, Kristian Chan, and G Wes Patterson 11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11 AGU SESSION P033: SSSBs - SAMPLE RETURNS, JWST, GROUND-BASED ASTRONOMY, AND MORE Please consider submitting an abstract to our session on Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs). This session welcomes abstracts that address analyses of returned samples, new observations and models of large planetesimals found across the Solar System, and contrast the properties of planetesimals found in various small body reservoirs. Observations returned by space missions (e.g., OSIRIS-REx, Hayabusa 2, New Horizons...) and large telescopic facilities (e.g., JWST, Adaptive optics observations) offer a broad encompassing view of the populations of large planetesimals and dwarf planets that formed shortly after Solar System formation. Most of these bodies have retained information on their accretional environments while others have undergone significant internal evolution. The sample return missions will continue deciphering the Solar System's early history with the exploration of near Earth asteroids like Ryugu and Bennu. Upcoming flyby missions to visit 16 Psyche and Jupiter Trojan asteroids and instruments on the extremely large telescopes available in the next decade will provide observations with unprecedented details of many large planetesimals. Conveners: Julie Castillo, Franck Marchis, Bryan Holler Submit an abstract here: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/225952 Deadline: July 31, 2024 12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12 AGU SESSION P041: UNDERSTANDING OCEAN WORLDS IN THE ERA OF THE EUROPA CLIPPER AND JUICE MISSIONS Beneath their icy exteriors, Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede, among others in our Solar System, hold vast, salty oceans. Europa appears to be an active world where chemical mixing in the interior ocean may support habitable environments, sustained for billions of years. Arriving to the Jovian system in the early 2030s, NASA's Europa Clipper mission will employ a suite of investigations to investigate Europa and ESA's JUICE mission will study the icy moons of Jupiter with a focus on Ganymede. With both missions present, a rare opportunity exists to perform individual and joint science investigations. This session welcomes presentations on ocean world research that contributes to our understanding of these bodies across the Solar System. Future mission concepts, instrument developments, and planetary protection research are also welcome, highlighting strategies to explore these potentially habitable worlds within sensitive and challenging environments, building on the exploration by JUICE and Europa Clipper. Submit your abstract before July 31: https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prelim.cgi/Session/228812 Conveners: Kathleen L Craft (JHU APL), M Alexandra Matiella Novak (JHU APL), Olivier Witasse (ESA/ESTEC), Ishan Mishra (NASA JPL), and Willi Exner (ESA/ESTEC) 13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13 PLANETARY GEOMORPHOLOGY IMAGE OF THE MONTH The July image of the month is now available at the IAG's Planetary Geomorphology web page: https://planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com This month's topic is 'A Hypothesis for Undetectable Flow at the North Polar Layered Deposits of Mars', contributed by Dr. Isaac Smith, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto. You can follow IAG Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month on X former Twitter): @PlanetGeomorpho Also, go to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlanetaryGeomorphology Best wishes, Lonneke Roelofs (Chair, IAG Planetary Geomorphology working group) 14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14 [NASA] ROSES-24 AMENDMENT 25: C.27 LUCY IN THE L4 TROJANS PARTICIPATING SCIENTIST PROGRAM The purpose of C.27 Lucy in the L4 Trojans Participating Scientist Program (Lucy-L4-PSP) is to enhance the scientific return of the Lucy mission through new investigations that broaden and/or complement Lucy's primary investigations, conducted during and immediately following the spacecraft's encounters with objects in the L4 swarm of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. The Lucy-L4-PSP solicits proposals for science investigations or other scientific contributions to the Lucy mission that directly address outstanding questions in planetary science related to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids and, specifically, to the bodies that the Lucy spacecraft will encounter in the L4 swarm in 2027 and 2028. Mandatory NOIs are due August 19, 2024, and proposals are due October 2, 2024. The S/T/M Section of proposals is limited to ten pages. Proposals submitted to this program will be evaluated using a dual-anonymous peer review process. See Section 3.3 and the associated "Guidelines for Anonymous Proposals" document under "Other Documents" on the NSPIRES page for this program element. Go to: https://tinyurl.com/35yjsm72 Questions concerning C.27 Lucy-L4-PSP may be directed to Thomas S. Statler at thomas.s.statler@nasa.gov. [Edited for length] 15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15-15 PROFESSOR AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR POSITION AT THE INSTITUTE FOR PLANETARY MATERIALS, OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY, JAPAN Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University is currently looking for two faculty positions as detailed below. Number of openings: 2 posts. One Professor (special appointment) and One Associate professor (special appointment). Affiliation: Division of Planetary Surface Environment, Institute for Planetary Materials (IPM), Okayama University. Reference website: https://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/en/ Individuals with outstanding research achievements in planetary surface environment research for future Moon and Mars missions and individuals with outstanding research achievements in the field of materials science that address global environmental issues such as radioactive waste disposal and carbon dioxide fixation in geological strata. Experience with the planetary surface environment simulator, set for introduction by FY2025, is also welcome. Required Qualifications: 1) Applicants must have a doctoral degree. 2) Any nationality is welcome. 3) Ability to teach and guide research in English is required. Application deadline: September 30, 2024, 5:00 p.m. (Japan Standard Time) Starting date: As soon as possible after January 1, 2025. For more information and the application procedure, please visit: https://www.misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp/en/news/3199/ 16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16 ICE GIANT SYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES: JULY 9, DR. MATIJA CUK (SETI INSTITUTE) Date/Time: July 9, 11am ET Speaker: Dr. Matija Cuk (SETI Institute) Topic: Orbital Stability and Age of the Inner Moons of Uranus The Ice Giant Systems Seminar Series showcases recent developments in scientific topics covering all aspects of the ice giant systems, including atmospheres, satellites, rings, magnetic fields, interior structures, and science related to formation and evolution. To access the virtual seminar, view the seminar schedule, and access recordings of previous talks, visit the series website here: https://icegiantsseminar.jhuapl.edu Mallory Kinczyk & Jodi Berdis 17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17-17 PLANETARY MEETING CALENDAR ADDITIONS Note: Many face-to-face meetings going forward will have online components. Check their websites for details. Posted at https://planetarynews.org/meetings.html November 6-8, 2024 Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Meeting https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/nov2024/ Online [Editor Note: If there is a planetary-related meeting, conference or workshop that you think your colleagues should be aware of, please send the date, title, URL and location to pen_editor@psi.edu.] 18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18-18 PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL - NEW PAPERS Direct Links to Open Access Papers Editor, Faith Vilas https://psj.aas.org Updated Catalog of Kepler Planet Candidates: Focus on Accuracy and Orbital Periods Jack J. 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